Main Task Editing: Update 11

In today's lesson our teacher gave us feedback on our opening title sequence. Here is the feedback:

• Play the opening title sequence to other people adults and students to see what they think of the Opening title sequence and get there feedback.
• To put something at the beginning and at the end of the Opening titles. Perhaps a picture which will fade at the end.
• Take out name at the end *Jordon Park*, as it confuses the audience, and serves no purpose.
• More distortion at the end.

We will apply this to our footage and get more feedback.

Group Update

We aim to have the post-production stage of the opening title sequence completed by Friday 4th March 2011.

Half Term

In half term we spoke to the members of the group to discuss the issue of the footage that we could not use.

As a group we decided that the opening title sequence was better without the footage, so we have decided we are not going to re-shot this footage. This means we will have more time in the post-production stage, which should be reflected in the quality of our work.

Main Task Editing: Update 10

After the lesson I took home the footage on a memory stick to attempt to convert the footage, so our editing software would support the footage, as the computers at school did not allow me to download the converting software.

Unfortunately, the converting did not work, so this footage was useless. We will discuss as a group whether we will re-shoot the footage again or leave it as it is.

Group Update

It is now coming up to the half term break. This means that the production of our opening title sequence will have to go hold for a week, as the only place we can use the editing software is in college.


We have managed to complete the filming, capturing and nearly completed editing. After the half term week off we will be finalizing the Main Task, before moving on to the evaluation process.

Main Task Editing: Update 9

Today we filmed the shots mentioned in the previous blog entry. The filming process went well and we were finished quickly and efficiently.

However, when capturing the footage, we encountered a problem. Before filming, we had forgotten to format the memory card we were recording on to. This meant that the footage saved in a '.Mod' format, rather than the usual '.avi' format. Consequently, the editing software we were using could not support the files, meaning we could not use them. But, we should be able to convert the files, using simple video converting software.We will try this and if it does not work then we will have to re-shoot the shots again. Hopefully, it will not come to this.

Main Task Editing: Update 8

We had emailed about booking a location for the filming prior to this lesson, however, it was not available until the next lesson, so to make good use of our time, we spent the lesson ensuring our blogs, were completely up to date, and to the best quality, also we went back over the footage to ensure what we had done so far was the best it could be.

In the next lesson we will film the seqences and then edit them back in if time allows.